A 19th century Indian 'hunting scene pattern' silver pedestal bowl, with plated metal liner Lucknow, circa 1890, with maker's mark struck twice, probably N.N.C Raj period, circular form, repoussé and chased in high relief, the broad central frieze depicting hunting scenes in fine detail, an elephant with howdah and manhout with poised spear assisting a soldier being mauled on the ground by a lion, a hunter (shikari) with blade raised in combat with a tiger, in another scene a mounted huntsman with poised rifle chases a group of leaping deer, with a tiger pouncing upon one, all within a landscape with palms and trees, scrolling band above with flower heads including roses, a lower band of acanthus, the spreading circular foot with foliate scrolls, the interior with a plated metal liner, height 15cm, diameter 17.7 cm, weight excluding liner 19.8oz. Footnotes: From A Private collection of Indian and Burmese Colonial Silver Provenance: From Michael Backman, London, May 2013 A similar bowl is illustrated in Dehejia, V., Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Mapin, 2008. p. 176 - 177. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing